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53e biennale de Venise Voyage au centre des mondes

From Saturday’s Globe and Mail

The Pavilion Doesn’t Even Have a Bathroom, James Bradshaw

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We are less than a week away from the opening of Cold Morning, a selection of four new films by Mark Lewis, one of Canada’s most internationally renowned artists, will be on view at the Canada Pavilion as part of the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2009.

For behind-the-scenes photos, interviews and blogs on the process of the Mark Lewis project and biennale…click here.

Installation in progress…

Press Release

Mark Lewis represents Canada
at the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

Cold Morning, a selection of four new films by Mark Lewis, one of Canada’s
most internationally renowned artists, will be on view at the Canada Pavilion
as part of the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2009.
On view from 7 June to 22 November 2009, La Biennale di Venezia is the
longest-running and most prestigious international venue for presenting
contemporary visual art.

The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House (University of Toronto),
which proposed Mark Lewis, is the first institution in Canada to commission
a new project by the artist. Barbara Fischer, the Commissioner/Curator for
the Canada Pavilion is Director/Curator at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery.

Distinguished by their extraordinary capacity to express and explore place,
Lewis’s films have often been described as pure temporal experiences. His
visually evocative, predominantly silent films focus on incidental places
encountered in everyday life. His nuanced depictions of the contemporary city
transform seemingly quotidian activities into profound cinematic observations.


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